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Expanding the MCP Maintainer Team

https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/2026-04-08-maintainer-update/

Published: April 8, 2026 00:00

Updates to the Model Context Protocol (MCP) governance team: a new Lead Maintainer and an addition to the Core Maintainer group as the open-source project continues to grow.

Tool Annotations as Risk Vocabulary: What Hints Can and Can't Do

https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/2026-03-16-tool-annotations/

Published: March 16, 2026 00:00

MCP tool annotations were introduced nearly a year ago as a way for servers to describe the behavior of their tools — whether they’re read-only, destructive, idempotent, or reach outside their local environment. Since then, the community has filed five…

Understanding MCP Extensions

http://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/2026-03-11-understanding-mcp-extensions/

Published: March 11, 2026 00:00

You’ve built an MCP server that works quite well, but now you’re wondering: How do I add richer UI elements? Custom auth flows? What about domain-specific conventions, like those for finance or healthcare? This is where extensions come in. They let…

The 2026 MCP Roadmap

http://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/2026-mcp-roadmap/

Published: March 9, 2026 09:00

The updated Model Context Protocol roadmap for 2026: transport scalability, agent communication, governance maturation, and enterprise readiness, plus guidance on SEP prioritization and how to get involved.

MCP Apps - Bringing UI Capabilities To MCP Clients

http://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/2026-01-26-mcp-apps/

Published: January 26, 2026 00:00

Today, we’re announcing that MCP Apps are now live as an official MCP extension. Tools can now return interactive UI components that render directly in the conversation: dashboards, forms, visualizations, multi-step workflows, and more. This is the first…

January MCP Core Maintainer Update

http://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/2026-01-22-core-maintainer-update/

Published: January 23, 2026 00:00

A lot has happened since we first released MCP. We wrapped up 2025 with a major spec update and the momentum hasn’t slowed down. None of it would have happened without the community: every PR, every issue filed, every server and client built. That energy…

Exploring the Future of MCP Transports

http://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/2025-12-19-mcp-transport-future/

Published: December 19, 2025 09:00

When MCP first launched in November of 2024, quite a few of its users relied on local environments, connecting clients to servers over STDIO. As MCP became the go-to standard for LLM integrations, community needs evolved, leading to the build-out of…

MCP joins the Agentic AI Foundation

http://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/2025-12-09-mcp-joins-agentic-ai-foundation/

Published: December 9, 2025 09:00

Today marks a major milestone for the Model Context Protocol. Anthropic is donating MCP to the Agentic AI Foundation, a directed fund under the Linux Foundation. MCP will become a founding project of the newly created foundation. In one year, MCP has…

SEPs Are Moving to Pull Requests

http://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/2025-11-28-sep-process-update/

Published: November 28, 2025 11:00

We’re updating how Specification Enhancement Proposals (SEPs) are submitted and managed. Starting today, SEPs will be created as pull requests to the seps/ directory instead of GitHub issues. Why the Change? When we introduced SEPs in July, we chose GitHub…

One Year of MCP: November 2025 Spec Release

http://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/2025-11-25-first-mcp-anniversary/

Published: November 25, 2025 00:00

Today, MCP turns one year old. You can check out the original announcement blog post if you don’t believe us. It’s hard to imagine that a little open-source experiment, a protocol to provide context to models, became the de-facto standard for this very…